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Extreme poverty rate of Costa Rica increases to 7.2pct in 2015

Xinhua, November 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

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Image taken on Oct. 28, 2015 shows people receiving food from a social organization, in the Central Park of Alajuela, 30 km northeast of San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. The rate of extreme poverty of Costa Rica has increased from 5.8 percent of the houses in 2010 to 7.2 percent in 2015, according to the results of the National Home Survey 2015 (ENAHO, for its acronym in Spanish) and released by the National Institute of Stadistics and Census (INEC, for its acronym in Spanish), according to the local press. (Xinhua/Kent Gilbert)

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